Word: lariat
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...hurt it bears. Still, her singing transcends commonplace melodies to find the anguish between the words, behind the music. Even cowgirls get the blues, but McEntire's vibrant vocals seem to say there's hope in the deepest of doldrums. Reba's pure-country voice is a lariat across an abyss...
Then he throws a loop around the sorrel colt's neck. The horse runs, then plants his feet and struggles. Ray holds the lariat tight -- not with a "fighting feel," but patiently, until the fear subsides. As soon as the colt moves forward, Ray rewards him by throwing slack in the rope...
...mind is troubled, the body is troubled," Ray says over and over. Now he ropes the colt's back foot, and another fight ensues. When the colt leans away from the rope, his hind leg is suspended in air. "There's a change," Ray says and lets the lariat go loose. Belatedly, we see that the colt's neck and shoulder have relaxed. "I try to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard," Ray explains...
...maps, diaries and histories. In addition, he regularly does field work in Durango, Colo., so that he can be close to the land he writes about. If L' Amour is not praised as a prose stylist, he is applauded for lore that is accurate down to the last lariat...
WACO, Tex.--The entire news staff of the Baylor University student newspaper, The Baylor Lariat, resigned March 4 to protest the dismissal of the paper's three editors...